chucksmi
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Formerly Known As: Offshore Angler elsewhere
Age: I saw Jerry Live
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Post by chucksmi on Dec 17, 2023 6:58:47 GMT -5
Being a gigging guitar player - I'm cheap. I love shopping for deals and in the guitar world that presents a special challenge.
I was perusing TEMU the other day and it appears to be another overstock liquidation site. When looking at guitar stuff, it became pretty obvious to me that a bunch of the stuff for guitar was StewMac stuff. Things like radius blocks, angled shims and nut files, all straight out of the StewMac catalog for pennies on the dollar.
You may wish to check it out. I have no affiliation with them, just saw some smoking deals. Yes, you need to separate the wheat from the chaff as most of the stuff listed is low quality, low cost region bogeys, but if you know what you're doing there's some sweet deals.
Chuck
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Post by Pinetree on Dec 17, 2023 9:34:42 GMT -5
Temu is pretty sketchy.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Dec 17, 2023 12:05:24 GMT -5
I’ve ordered a couple of things on TEMU with no issues but I generally look elsewhere if possible because it just feels a bit dodgy to me.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Dec 17, 2023 13:17:21 GMT -5
Temu and Wish both seem sort of grey market or otherwise non official channel sources. Some of the items may be identical, but over runs straight from the factory in China, but I still wonder.
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Post by cedarchoper58 on Dec 17, 2023 13:33:10 GMT -5
bought some very cheap stuff there and it was all good
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Post by LTB on Dec 18, 2023 7:23:58 GMT -5
Very!!! I will not use them
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Post by HenryJ on Dec 18, 2023 9:09:27 GMT -5
I've never visited TEMU. Looked like clickbait to me, with all the under-dressed and tightly-dressed women in its pictures.
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Post by Leftee on Dec 18, 2023 12:40:48 GMT -5
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Post by markfromhawaii on Dec 18, 2023 13:24:50 GMT -5
I’m a Prime member and the free shipping is a great selling point for me. I looked up Stewmac on AMZN and they’ve got a bunch of products listed. My wife buys cheap stuff on Temu. I went to their website and the “wheel of fortune” immediately popped up. No thanks.
Not to say that AMZN is the most scrupulous marketplace distributor. They’re doing just fine with their web services side gig. Even the federal government uses their cloud.
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chucksmi
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Posts: 178
Formerly Known As: Offshore Angler elsewhere
Age: I saw Jerry Live
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Post by chucksmi on Dec 18, 2023 13:51:20 GMT -5
I've never visited TEMU. Looked like clickbait to me, with all the under-dressed and tightly-dressed women in its pictures. Said no lead guitar player ever, lol!
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